It is hard to guess what a Mexican prairie dog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus) on average weights 900 grams (1.98 lbs).
The Mexican prairie dog is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Cynomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34.2 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Mexican prairie dogs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus) is a diurnal burrowing rodent native to Mexico. Treatment as an agricultural pest has led to its status as an endangered species. They are closely related to squirrels, chipmunks, and marmots. Cynomys mexicanus originated about 230,000 years ago from a peripherally isolated population of the more widespread Cynomys ludovicianus.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican prairie dog
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
- Arrow flying squirrel with a weight of 49 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a weight of 222 grams
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a weight of 109 grams
- Forest giant squirrel with a weight of 630 grams
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a weight of 207 grams
- Vancouver Island marmot bringing 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs) to the scale
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican prairie dog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynomys mexicanus:
- Muskrat bringing 992 grams to the scale
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum bringing 796 grams to the scale
- Small-toothed sportive lemur bringing 955 grams to the scale
- Chinese ferret-badger bringing 939 grams to the scale
- Bahamian hutia bringing 912 grams to the scale
- Spectacled flying fox bringing 759 grams to the scale
- Tres Marias rabbit bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed prairie dog bringing 797 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded flying fox bringing 872 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican prairie dog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican prairie dog:
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Gilbert’s potoroo with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sunda slow loris with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a size of 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Brush rabbit with a size of 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a size of 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Potto with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican prairie dog
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Mexican prairie dog: